Shaping Gestures to Shape Personality: Big-Five Traits, Godspeed Scores and the Similarity-Attraction Effect

Craenen, B. G.W., Deshmukh, A. , Foster, M. E. and Vinciarelli, A. (2018) Shaping Gestures to Shape Personality: Big-Five Traits, Godspeed Scores and the Similarity-Attraction Effect. In: 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018), Stockholm, Sweden, 10-15 Jul 2018, pp. 2221-2223.

Abstract

This paper explores the role of personality as a mediation variable between observable behaviour of a robot — in this case, gestures of different energy and spatial extension — and the experience of its users according to the Godspeed questionnaire, a standard instrument for gathering subjective ratings of human-robot interaction. The results show that the personality traits that the users attribute to a robot are, to a certain extent, predictive of the subjective scores, i.e., of the quality of the interaction they have with it. Furthermore, the experiments show that 15 of the 30 observers involved in the experiments tend to like the robot more when they attribute traits to it that more similar to their own. The observation that only part of the observers display such a tendency — known as similarityattraction effect — might explain why previous investigations of the same phenomenon have provided contradictory results.

• Item Type: Conference Proceedings
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Deshmukh, Dr Amol and Foster, Dr Mary Ellen and Craenen, Dr Bart and Vinciarelli, Professor Alessandro
• Authors: Craenen, B. G.W., Deshmukh, A., Foster, M. E., and Vinciarelli, A.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science

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Project Code	Award No	Project Name	Principal Investigator	Funder's Name	Funder Ref	Lead Dept
70165	1	MUMMER	Mary Ellen Foster	European Commission (EC)	688147	SCHOOL OF COMPUTING SCIENCE